DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations to shorten the development lifecycle while delivering features, fixes, and updates frequently and reliably.
DevOps emerged from the frustration of siloed development and operations teams. Developers would write code, throw it over the wall to operations, and hope for the best. DevOps breaks down these silos by fostering a culture of shared responsibility for the entire software lifecycle.
The DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics provide a framework for measuring DevOps performance:
As organizations grow, DevOps practices need supporting infrastructure. This is where platform engineering comes in—building internal tools and platforms that make it easy for every team to follow DevOps best practices without becoming infrastructure experts.
Teams keep telling themselves infrastructure is simple. 'It's just Terraform.' 'A contractor can clean it up.' Here's what those assumptions actually cost.
There's an anxiety running through services businesses about AI. They have it backwards. When the busywork disappears, what's left is the part that actually matters.
AI is expanding the possibility space faster than we can build. Traditional metrics can't capture what's happening. Here's a new way to think about it.
AI leveled the playing field. You don't need vendor platforms anymore. Here's what real infrastructure ownership looks like and why it's your strategic advantage.
Generative AI doesn't replace infrastructure as code—it supercharges it. Here's why IaC is the perfect foundation for agentic development.